October 1 More than One Waste LandOctober 8 The strength to force the moment to its crisis: Thomas Hardy and George EliotOctober 22 Just Like a Woman? Bob Dylan and the Charge of Misogyny

Christopher Ricks is a member of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, of which he was president (2007-2008). Co-Director of the Editorial Institute at Boston University and Warren Professor of the Humanities, he was formerly a professor of English at the University of Bristol and at Cambridge. He was the Professor of Poetry at Oxford, 2004-2009. His Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities were published by Yale in 2010 as True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound. With Lisa Nemrow and Julie Nemrow, he has edited Bob Dylan, The Lyrics: Since 1962 (to be published by Simon & Schuster in November this year), and with Jim McCue The Poems of T. S. Eliot (two vols., Faber & Faber, 2015).

Iván Acosta presents With a Cuban song in the heart | Con una canción cubana en el corazón in New Orleans, with events at Tulane, film screening, talks on Cuban music, culture, and the Cuban American experience.

A reading from Selected Delanty Poems and translations by Greg Delanty chosen and introduced by Archie Burnett.

Greg Delanty and B. Amore Celebrate National Poetry Month On Thursday, April 19th at 6:30 p.m., Phoenix Books Rutland will celebrate National Poetry Month with Irish poet, now of Burlington, VT, Greg Delanty, who will read from his new book, Selected Delanty, and B. Amore, poet and founder of the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center in West Rutland, VT. This event is free and open to all. Copies of Selected Delanty will be available for attendees to purchase and have signed.

You remarked,freeing my tongue’s needlestuck on its damaged record,how cúpla dán of mine are hearkening back,a kind of grappling for the life buoy’s Oof the roads, streets and life of the drowned citywe both hail from.

Christopher Ricks (Literary Advisor to Un-Gyve Press) visits UCC to give a lecture entitled Interrogatives: Three Irish Poets, WB Yeats, Greg Delanty and Patrick Kavanagh. Hosted by the school of English, the lecture takes place on Monday, March 21st at the Creative Zone, Boole Library from 6pm. It will be followed by a reading by the Cork poet, Greg Delanty (Selected Delanty edited by Archie Burnett forthcoming from Un-Gyve).

Mark Chester's Twosomes touring exhibit and companion book from Un-Gyve Press represents images culled from his forty years of traveling with a camera, presented in pairings related by subject matter, graphic interest or, as the photographer puts it, “a stretch of the imagination.” — a wide-reaching body-of-work that connects architectural icons with sidewalk signage; Japan with Iowa; 1979 with 2002; celebrity with passerby in a manner that reveals, as novelist Paul Theroux describes, “tremendous humanity and humor....In this juxtaposition of matching moods and paraphernalia, Mark Chester shows us in an ingenious way how the world is related and how we matter to each other.”

A celebration of the poet, of the first-ever collected edition of his poems, in print and — in air — in various voices, a reading from the work. Poets Ben Mazer, editor of the edition and Maurice Manning join Un-Gyve Press, its Literary Advisor, Christopher Ricks of the Editorial Institute of Boston University, and other special guests.

Big Band Beat! Big Band Jazz: The Greg Hopkins Jazz Orchestra at The Beat Hotel

Jan 25, 2015

In Air: John Crowe Ransom
Wednesday, 11/11, 2015, 5:30pm @ Barnes & Noble Boston University
A celebration of the poet, of the first-ever collected edition of his poems, in print and — in air — in various voices, a reading from the work. Joining Un-Gyve Press, its Literary Advisor, Christopher Ricks of the Editorial Institute at BU, and Ben Mazer, editor of the edition: Karl Kirchwey, Maurice Manning, Meg Tyler, Jon Westling and Peter Wolf.
Introduced by Chris Pfeffer of Barnes & Noble
Videographer: Deshawn Hendrickson of Boston University